The Promise - R. Avrohom Stulberger - TorahAnytime.com

i just want to end with this story i heard this just this morning i've put in a couple plugs in for uh stories to inspire and this is another one i heard on that i get these um two stories a day very very worth it to be just be given this you know joined a little app and you get these two stories every single day i heard an incredible story from the time telling a certain person just an amazing amazing message of the pride of what a jew is the dignity yes that he has to remember about himself all the times and how again it's about keeping the mitzvos and about it gets down to the fundamental commitment to doing the right thing and the story goes that apparently there was a uh maybe swell would not discourage people from going to america back in the 1800s by the time lives of course mid mid to late 1800s into 1933 when he passed away in his 90s maybe even older somebody came to the time for bracha to go to america this must be late 1800s 1880s or so he gave he asked him for bracha to go to america and the really was not excited to do it because he didn't really feel jews should be going to america he knew when he saw what happens in the early 1900s late 1800s when jews went to america we saw what happened so many of them got lost so many of them completely fell by the wayside so he was not happy to give abraham and he said you want a brochure he says please rub it i need a brochure he was a very sincere jew very honorable and and very committed jewish i'll give you bracha if you give me your kias kaf give me your hand and as i hold your hand and you commit to me with that kia's calf that you will never ever be mikhail shabus are you willing to do that are you going to look me in the eye and tell me you will never be mahal shabbis and he says rebbe he has the hand of the kadosh vitara the khafiz hayem surrounding his hand and he grabs it and he commits and he says rebbe yes give me a bracha i need to go to america and i commit to you i will never ever break shabbos it's okay it gives me and he goes and i'm not sure how long he was there but this person was very strong and he committed and he had a certain job in a certain factory he was doing quite well in this job and the bark hashem he told them up front i'm not gonna i can't work on shabbos i was obviously the norm in those days very often people literal people where most of the fsa would literally go from job to job this guy was working for a long time and he said you know i just got a new partner and we have a change of situation it's worked for a while but not anymore if you want this job you've got to work on shabbos i can't you know i can't i can't i work i work double every single day you know i can't work on shabbos because i'm sorry you need to work on shabbos if you don't work on shabbos you don't have this job that's it he was heartbroken but he says friday came and he said you're coming tomorrow i'm not coming tomorrow and he lost a job one week one month two months he's looking he cannot find a job he can't find a job and he's trying everywhere this was a well-paying solid job where he was able to take care of his family three months four months go by six months go by and he's down literally the the cupboards are empty he's scrounging around for any last possible morsel to be able to put the meal together to put shabbos together he had not yet broken the deal and he finished starving shabbos six months pretty much later and he just he felt he felt broken he felt forlorn and he said you know i'm going i'm going to walk to that factory he was within walking distance i just said i'm going to i'm going to tell him i'm going to come in to work next week and he walked to the factory he was going up the steps and just as he was going up the steps just like we have situations where like jose fatigue saw the vision of yaakov as he was about to full pray to the temptations of asia's potiphar and the vision of yaakov brought him back into reality as this jew is walking up the steps to that factory where he was going to basically forgo and basically renege on his commitment the vision of the time appeared to him and that incredible face the holiness the feeling of his hands all came back the moment when he made the commitment to the time that he was never going to break shabbos came back to him in its full impact i can't do this he turned around and he went home by side that night so again these are well-known stories that night two men what's the shabbos the shabbos that he almost caved in two men knock on the door he opens the door and he sees his boss he sees another guy and he says what are you doing here and he invites him in so we wanted to talk to you he says yes he says well i need to tell you something six months ago when i told you that we have a new boss we have a new i have a new partner this is my partner and at that time he was very very adamant and he said if people are going to work here they need to work on shabbos we need to keep this factory pumping seven days a week and i said you're a good worker and i told my partner if we say that to this particular you he's talking to the if we'd say that to you i knew that you weren't going to work and he said no he's going to work he's he's a he's a guy he still wants his money it might take him a while he'll leave right away he'll come back trust me he'll come back and i said no he won't and they made a bet and he says you know we made a bet with each other my partner bet me that he would that you would indeed come back within six months it was a hefty sum of money that we bet and i said no he won't i have to tell you that six-month bet ended today i need to tell you that because you did not ask me for that job i took away your panasonic for six months i have money here to pay you for the six months that you didn't work and because you taught both of us a lesson in dignity and strength and commitment what it is to be true to who you are as a jew i'm giving you the money from the bed as well and that's a significant amount of money we want you to come back i want to thank you because i'm giving you this extra money because you taught us both an incredible lesson and with that he got his job back he was able to stay true to his commitment to the time by sight this hap happened to have a clear happy ending six months later sometimes it's clear sometimes it takes longer and sometimes the clarity only comes in the ultimate ms one thing we need to know if we know who we are but we know that we are israel we are the people who have fought against all adversity and we we've come up strong we've come up proud but we know that we have to be distinct and that's why we had to go down to mitsrayam because in inherit israel we would have just been too comfortable and we would have been immersed within the nations by going down to matura and we left as clya israel not as a very nice wonderful nation and enmeshed within the rest of the nations of the world you